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How colleges are adapting to the future of education

Linways Technologies

If that seems too far fetched, just think about the number of jobs that was created in the last few decades, like social media manager, drone operator, mobile app developer, system admin etc. These programs are of high demands as there are more people shifting careers and need skills that they haven’t learned in college.

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What to expect from Next Generation NCLEX

Brainscape

What sets Brainscape apart from any other study app is that its adaptive learning algorithm leverages spaced repetition (and several other key learning tactics) to help you memorize fundamental nursing concepts WAY more efficiently than the traditional study methods you’ve probably been taught.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

College of Computing Professor Ashok Goel and his team used the 40,000 some odd questions that students had asked in previous versions of the course to build out Jill’s knowledge-base. Indeed, young people prefer learning from YouTube than from textbooks — according, ironically, to Pearson.

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